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"Request permission for a low altitude flyby..."
Topic Started: Mar 20 2012, 06:42 PM (137 Views)
George K
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http://gizmodo.com/5893585/is-this-insane-low-pass-flyby-the-craziest-thing-youre-going-to-see-today-most-probably-yes

Is This Insane Low Pass Flyby the Craziest Thing You’re Going To See Today? Most Probably Yes
I thought this was the craziest low pass flyby ever, but obviously I was mistaken. After all, what you're seeing here is not a small fighter jet but a B-52 Stratofortress almost kissing the sea while flying by USS Ranger aircraft carrier.

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Look at the size of that thing and its altitude. That beast is a 265,000-pounds and 185-foot wingspan of a mother—still the backbone of the United States bomber fleet thanks to its amazingly good performance and low cost.

This image was taken in 1990 in the Persian Gulf. US carriers and B-52s were conducting joint exercises when two of the bombers requested permission for a low pass. While it's a high altitude bomber, the B-52s also fly at low altitudes to avoid enemy radar and air defenses. When the B-52s approached the carrier, they announced they were six miles away but the carrier controllers couldn't see them because they weren't looking down.

I wish there was a video. I imagine it looked pretty much like this, but much cooler.
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big al
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A couple of quotes from my all-time favorite movie, Dr. Strangelove,...

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General "Buck" Turgidson: If the pilot's good, see, I mean if he's reeeally sharp, he can barrel that baby in so low... oh you oughta see it sometime. It's a sight. A big plane like a '52... varrrooom! Its jet exhaust... frying chickens in the barnyard!


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Major T. J. "King" Kong: Well, boys, we got three engines out, we got more holes in us than a horse trader's mule, the radio is gone and we're leaking fuel and if we was flying any lower why we'd need sleigh bells on this thing... but we got one little budge on them Rooskies. At this height why they might harpoon us but they dang sure ain't gonna spot us on no radar screen!


When I lived in Australia, B-52s based on Okinawa flew training missions over the Australian outback. I was told they frightened a lot of kangaroos, dingos, and sheep and probably fried a few of them, too.

I was inside a B-52 during an ANG open house on the base adjacent to the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport. It's still a damn impressive flying machine. Thank God and the United States Air Force that it has never been called upon to deliver the nuclear weaponry it is capable of carrying.

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Buck
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Give Charley and Elmo a blast. Bump everything up to condition red.
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Don't see you around here much, General. Miss Scott must be requiring a lot of your attention.

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